http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Playing Legacy Software on Vista en Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:14:27 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/playing-legacy-software-on-vista#post-1599 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:17:00 +0000 rbailin 1599@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>If you Google: vista "Macromedia Projector has stopped working"<br /> you get 14 articles with pretty much the same advice as this one:</p> <p>Xtractor software doesn’t open in Windows Vista?</p> <p>Gigajam relies on Adobe/Macromedia Director technology, which has compatibility issues with Windows Vista. When you run Gigajam Xtractor 3.8 on Windows Vista, you will see a message that informs you Macromedia Projector has stopped working, and Xtractor will not run.</p> <p>To solve this, you can run Gigajam in compatibility mode:</p> <p>1. Click the Start button</p> <p>2. Select My Computer from the menu to see your computer's disk drives</p> <p>3. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Gigajam\Xtractor (or wherever you have it installed)</p> <p>4. Right-click the Xtractor application icon and select Properties from the context menu</p> <p>5. In the dialog that appears, choose the Compatibility tab, switch on Run this program in compatibility mode for: checkbox and select Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 5) from the drop-down list</p> <p>6. Click OK</p> <p>Now run Gigajam Xtractor as normal either from its icon in the Start menu, or by clicking on the Gigajam G next to your exercises in your lessons. You only need to go through the above procedure the first time you run Gigajam Xtractor - thereafter you can simply run the program each time from its icon in the Start menu. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/playing-legacy-software-on-vista#post-1596 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:43:09 +0000 JLW 1596@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I just bought a new Toshiba Satellite and it runs Vista.<br /> My problem is I have a CD-Rom which is Legacy software and it won't play on the new computor. It works fine on my old computer, but that computer goes in and out. When I checked it on my old computer, it said it was running a MIDI device Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth.</p> <p>When I put in the CD the error message I get says "Macromedia Projector has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close th program and notify you if a solution is available." However nothing has come through in two days.</p> <p>Can someone provide me a way to play the software on my new Toshiba? </p>